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conference

[kon-fer-uhns, -fruhns] / ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns /


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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The company's president even vowed at a news conference to "look for any excuses to lower prices again", to the amazement of social media users.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

"That's just Reece," Walters told the post-match media conference.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

When asked about the prospect at a UFC news conference, White said “I’ve got a lot of jobs already.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

In 2006, I attended a Skid Row news conference where a gaggle of politicians including Villaraigosa touted a 10-year plan to end homelessness in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

He’d gone to a conference put on by Merrill Lynch, right after they’d fired their CEO, Stan O’Neal, and disclosed $20 billion or so of their $52 billion in subprime-related losses.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Famously combative, White has at times clashed with journalists covering the sport during news conferences.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

He has inaugurated all five editions of the annual Semicon India conference, a relatively recent addition to similar conferences in the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Now, in the campaign’s final days, both have been telling voters in vivid detail about the other’s shortcomings, spreading their messages in hard-hitting ads and at bluntly worded news conferences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The current manager, Pat Murphy, had some of Kuenn’s folksy eccentricity, quizzing his young children at press conferences and once touting the midgame deliciousness of a pancake stuffed into his uniform’s back pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Being an engineer, Mary Jackson would eventually learn, meant being the only black person, or the only woman, or both, at industry conferences for years.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

He whispered to one of his attorneys while his lead lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, conferenced with the judge and prosecutors at the front of the courtroom.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Which gets us to that footnote, in which Justice Alito writes, “That constitutional question was argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

On Dec. 9, the court conferenced and took a split vote.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Buck’s petition is expected to be conferenced by the U.S.

From Time ● Apr. 20, 2016

I have already conferenced with Rae, and now Ethan’s conference is going over.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The video conferencing company also bumped up its guidance for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

She’s missed only a handful of the energy siting council’s monthly meetings in the past decade, driving all around the state before video conferencing became common.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

We connect via video conferencing software, her location in the U.S. a secret, and Mariya appears in her anime form, her silver-white hair occasionally obscuring her welcoming oval eyes, which blink often as she speaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

Sharoudi became friends with Hush, who was telecommunications manager at NHS Lothian and then NHS Scotland video conferencing manager.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

After sitting for an interview, Nilekani gave our TV crew a tour of Infosys’s global conferencing center—ground zero of the Indian outsourcing industry.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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